Activism

Youth Rules

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2011 Youth-led revolts are shaking up the world; Shepard Fairey gets beaten up in Copenhagen; and people use social media to clean up London after the riots. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Hackers Take Aim at San Francisco Transit

Staff / Truthdig Aug 14, 2011 The hacker group Anonymous threatened to target the San Francisco Bay Area's transit website after officials cut the system's underground cellphone service to prevent a protest last week. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Anonymous Is Going to Try to Kill Facebook (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2011 Remember, remember the fifth of November 2011. That's the day hactivist collective Anonymous plans to "kill" the second-busiest website on the Internet "for the sake of your own privacy." In a video message, Anonymous warns that "you are not safe from them [Facebook] nor from any government" to which the social networking website feeds information. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Anonymous Strikes U.S. Law Enforcement Sites

Staff / Truthdig Aug 7, 2011 The hacking group Anonymous took credit Saturday for the theft of a cache of data from rural American law enforcement websites in retaliation for arrests of associates and sympathizers in the United States and Britain. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Activist Goes to Jail

Staff / Truthdig Jul 27, 2011 In his book "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau wrote: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" And prison is where a federal judge has put Tim DeChristopher, 29, after he posed in 2008 as a winning bidder (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Nominate Our Next Truthdigger of the Week

Staff / Truthdig Jul 26, 2011 Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alleged Anonymous Hackers Are Busted

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2011 Federal agents nabbed 14 people across the country Tuesday in connection with alleged attacks by the hacker group Anonymous against the websites of numerous corporations, in what looks to be the largest such roundup ever on U.S. soil. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

California Prisoners Do or Die

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2011 Prisoners all over California continue a hunger strike despite nearing death; "Sister Wives" reality TV show stars fight the anti-polygamy law; and economists have resorted to capital bribery to resuscitate the American job market. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Magazine Publishes Full Manning-Lamo Chat Logs

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2011 More than a year after Pfc. Bradley Manning was arrested on suspicion of passing tens of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, Wired magazine has released the full record of the conversations between Manning and former hacker Adrian Lamo that led to Manning's imprisonment. Previously, the logs had appeared only in redacted form, a situation that generated criticism in some quarters. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2011 Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FBI Steps Up Raids on Activists’ Homes

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2011 In May, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department SWAT officers broke into the home of 63-year-old Carlos Montes, a prominent anti-war activist and organizer for working class causes, and arrested him on suspicion of illegal possession of a firearm. The occurrence of similar arrests suggests the FBI is staging a low-profile witch hunt. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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Staff / Truthdig Jul 6, 2011 Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )